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“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed… — Mary Cappello Copy Share Image
“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe –… — David G. Allen Copy Share Image
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
I loved the writing process. I would love to write more. And I'd like to do a roundtable, like 'The View' or… — Andi Dorfman Copy Share Image
“Whoever wrote the column was careful in the wording of it." "Obviously Lord Lambert wrote it," Pandora said. "I wouldn't be so… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to… — Barry Kerch Copy Share Image
“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Many people find it difficult to head straight for their fun; something in them refuses to play. The barrier is not lack… — Victoria Nelson Copy Share Image
“I write from Spirit. When it’s time for me to write, I have to lose myself in that world - meet my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“You pull a book from the shelf and there was an invention... Almost like cooking, I thought sleepily. Instead of heat transforming… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“With Milch fully in charge of the writing process — or, in many cases, the rewriting process — it became all-consuming. When… — Alan Sepinwall Copy Share Image
“The gotta, as in: “I think I’ll stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out.” Even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Inspiration do not come and cannot be found, it has to exist - somewhere, somehow. Do believe that what you are doing… — Liv-Christine Hoem Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.” — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
“I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Where the concrete kept his pain at bay, the page gave his pain a place to go.” — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.” — Jessie Snow Copy Share Image
“As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process… — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.” — Nancy LaRonda Johnson Copy Share Image